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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Women control k-12 education and now college.[/b] They design the experience and set the expectations.  When girls do relatively worse on standardized tests, they de-emphasize standardized tests. Everything about education these days is hostile to masculine energy which is of course considered toxic. Look at the books your son has to read in English class. The college application process itself favors girls- cultivating relationships with teachers for recommendations where they divulge all their feelings and dreams, getting involved in all these silly organizations. The system is dominated by women and rigged against boys. [/quote]

Leadership positions at both k-12 and college level are overwhelmingly male.

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"Leadership" at K-12 doesn't even matter. If your kid's school has a male principal, your kid will never even see him. The teachers your kids interact with all day every day are overwhelmingly female. In short, as the PP said, women control K-12 education [i]where it matters[/i] - at the pit face - they control the experience from end to end. That female teachers have failed boys is certainly a plausible argument based on the outcome.

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My son has done great in public school with almost entirely female teachers. No one’s failed him. Expectations for behavior and academic performance begin at home. So many parents letting their boys play video games and watch YouTube for hours and hours every day and then complaining that the school system is rigged against them. Pathetic.[/quote]

Your education has failed you if you think muh anecdote means anything. Writ large, the education system has clearly failed boys. And that system is run by women.

Oh yeah, who makes the rules and sets the expectations at home? Also women. [/quote]

Well, I was educated primarily by women, so bear with me. What would you do to the remedy the situation? How should we do to accommodate boys?[/quote]

More physical activity worked into the day, more hands on science in elementary and middle school, have boys start school a year later than girls since they mature more slowly.[/quote]

I don’t have an issue with any of that. (Except for the last one, I would hope that boys that are ready to start at 5 are welcome to.) So what do you think it is about the bitter women teachers that is standing in the way?[/quote]

I'm not the bitter teacher poster. But I think no one could look at public education right now and think it is designed for what boys need. My kids middle school has 90 minute classes with no breaks during the classes and physical activity only 2-3 times a week. This starts in 6th grade. That doesn't work for a lot of boys. I'm an adult and we try to avoid 90 min meetings at my job because we know it's hard for even adults to focus for that long.[/quote]

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